These special agricultural workers are needed to produce the crops of this country. Without these workers. agricultural products that we find in our supermarkets will become either unavailable or far more expensive. Under the Immigration Act. the Department of Agriculture is to determine what are "seasonal agricultural services." On April 22. the Department issued its draft regulations defining "seasonal agricultural services." If adopted. these regulations would destroy many agricultural enterprises in New Mexico and throughout the West. The proposed regulations are unreasonable and vague and fail to include many of the crops that the Special Agricultural Workers Program was intended to cover. The proposed rules make arbitrary distinctions as to what is and what is not a "seasonal agricultural service." For instance. the harvesting of Christmas trees is. but the harvesting of alfalfa is not.
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